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[Kerrin]

On Page 97 of the April issue of "Mini" magazine.
They are rebuilding a 1275gt into a new shell.

Is it my imagination or are the track rod ends in upside down.
It seems to have passed an MOT! in the article.

Wont the taper cause the joint to be loose and dangerous.

isnt this a bit silly in a specialist Mag

[Sprocket]

No such thing as a specialist any more.

I was reading Performance classic Magazine, they had an article on the tunning of the A series engine, the information regarding throttle bodies for the injection cars it totaly inacurate. And they had Avonbar as their technical source too.

This stuff should never get to print.

[Dan]

Yeah but Avonbar have been no good since about 2 years before they closed their shop and went mail order only and have been going downhill ever since. I took them a block once when they did have the shop and asked them to do some engineering checks on it. I asked them to check the deck to main bearing height end for end and they said "we can't do that with out about £70,000 worth of measuring equipment"!!!!! I didn't realise that surface plates and verniers cost that much!

[icklemini]

Is it my imagination or are the track rod ends in upside down.

yes they are upside down...

TTFN,
Dave

[minidaves]

experts i get worried everytime that word is said these days like comman sence and manors

dave

[Kerrin]

I have had a dose of a bad cold all week and really thought I had gone mad. none of the 20 mini's I have owned had them that way up.

So is Avonbar another place to avoid in the mail order list?

K

[Dan]

Nah, they're OK. Especially if you have a Turbo. Just don't think of them as engineers. Although I did get a pair of carbs off them once, brand new 'Mini' spec which turned out after much investigation to be setup for a Midget. All their carbs are the same, they don't come direct from BFS but from someone else I think.

[Sprocket]

and to be honest, i dont think it was avonbar getting things wrong in the article but rather the journalist not listening fuly and writing what he thinks it should be ( where else does this happen)

Also the Editor of the mag may well have done his bit to to screw up the acuracy of information by cutting and pasting to shorten it but still make it somewhere readable.

All I meant was that they probibly had the right information and did what they wanted anyway.